and now it won't be automatically executed. Save the file, then try to reproduce the bug again by changing the media type from the web admin.. if it still hangs, then UpdateMedia and/or exec_batch_command is not resoponsible, and we can look elsewhere...

(A few notes on VIM - if you've never used it, it can be daunting.. Look up how to use it online if you have to. The basics are, use your arrow keys and find the line to change. Press "I" to go into insert (edit) mode. You can now make your changes. When finished, hit esc to get out of insert mode. type :w to save (colon folowed by a w), the :q to quit...)

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Ok! tried that same issues still. I let the file run for 5 minutes after clicking update with no refresh. did I need to reboot the core at all. I did not. I edited the file, saved it. tried the webadmin and no luck so changed the file back.

rodercot

IE7 - on my XP MCE SP2 roll up 2 workstation - Int. and Ext. Firefox on Gutsy 7.10 Internal KDE - firefox - On core Pluto-Admin - from Computing Selection on core, I guess the same as FF on KDE IE6 and then 7 on XPSP2 Laptop from External Lan.

I am now going through every disk share and every file to see if there is any cover art doubles or some file type or media sub-type would be set weird. It may not be a fix at all but at least I'll have piece of mind that the files are all set up correctly.

rodercot

You read my mind. I was just looking at it. I am not really sure what I am looking at though. I see a ton of errors where it is looking the /var directory for fav.ico file on a ip address that my system does not have. Can I e-mail you the file? PM me.

To stop all of the favicon.ico missing errors, you just need to install a favicon.ico. Two ways. First way is to copy the blank one from LinuxMCE wiki (if you are using firefox 3, goto wiki, right click on a page, View Page Info, Media, select favicon.ico and save) to dcerouter:/var/www/localhost/htdocs. The second is reportedly (I haven't tried it) to simply touch /var/www/localhost/htdocs.

To ignore these messages when viewing a log, do an invert match with grep like: grep -v favicon | less

rodercot

Well I decided to reinstall after all the playing around I lost or badly degraded dvd playback from the server for some reason. Anyhow It is reinstalled now, I reinstalled got all my a/v devices setup and then plugged in the internal lan cable and let it detect all the computers again and it did fine so far, it is updating media now. So I will let it run and see how it progresses.

thanks for all the assistance with this problem, I am not sure still if this is going to solve it as this is what I did on Sunday anyhow, except this time I obviously did not get the bad mac address for the file server as it was already changed.

rodercot

Well No Luck, I just got home and the server has been syncing with the db since my post this morning. It has only sync'd three out of 10 drives, it did sync the first three fairly quickly so I though I was on the road to recovery. I also tried a couple of updates on some files that were on drives that had been sync'd and no dice, same ole back to a 2 hour update.

So to me there is something being left on the server in one of the id3 files between installs is all I can see. It picked the server up at 80.2 right away when it found it. I am at a lost now. I am not going to go through 900 files and delete id3 files and then reinstall again. There is a brand new board in that server and I have ran a couple parity checks on it since this issue has occured and it returns zero errors, no sync errors as well as no read and write errors.

Regards,

Dave

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I just did a clean install on a total other machine, figuring maybe it was something in the Marvell chipset on the other system. No dice. This new system only has one nic, so I installed a realteck 1gb pci nic as the other. I used the realtek as the ext and the marvell on board as the internal but did not plug in the internal rj45 until the system was up. I also put the server on another 1gb linksys switch I have as well.

I do not have any idea where to go from here. Maybe it is something in the way I am installing the system.

Clean drive - I boot from the DVD let it do it's thing. Then it reboots, loads the av wizard I choose dvi/hdmi at 1080p it loads up 1080p in a 640x480 window then I choose my audio settings and then it starts the launch window which is completely unreadable. I ctl-alt-f2 to a prompt then i do the Nvidia 173.14.09 display driver setup with a telinit 1 when it is complete I reboot from the prompt that shows up after the display driver install.

It loads up starts the launch window - loads required drivers and then starts the setup wizard I boot to kde and turn on the digital output for audio in the mixer unti I can hear sarah then I reload the router. back to kde and change the audio settings tab to manual settings (Intel HDA ADI1988B codec requirement to pass through properly). Then I complete the setup wizard rooms, users, etc... add no devices at this time, tv etc.. I do those after. Once it has completed the reload, I plug in the internal network cable wait a few minutes and it starts up the detection scripts and finds all my internal computers. It finds the media server -TOWER-TOWER and I choose file server, then it finds the flash which the server boots from I choose ignore always, then it finds the shares and I choose - Windows Share, yes to save files, make public - OK for all 10 drives. Then it sets my other machines up in out of pluto devices range. Then it starts to sync the db with update_media.

Unless this is an issue with me not letting the first inital load after a/v wizard completes and before I install the NVIDIA driver then I do not know.

One more THING - Before tried the install on this new machine, I did let the old one find the server again and ignored all drive but drive 1. lmce syn'd disk1 almost immediately and all my media from that drive showed up fine in the UI under all or Movies - DVD but I still had the slow to update/refresh issue in the Webadmin page. Just trying to give you all the info I can supply.

regards,

Dave

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I have the hybrid in the living room which is about 25' from the server closet in the basement. The house is wired (Cat 5E) via an ONQ panel where all is terminated in the basement and within the server closet. Anyhow, I have a cable going into the hybrid which is from the router (server) closet as well and then a cable for the internal lan feeding back the 25' to the switch 1Gb 8 port linksys Jumbo frames etc... There good one (if they really have a good one) anyhow to fix the problem I installed another 5 port 1gb switch at the hybrid in the living room and ran a shorter cable from the hybrid into the new 5 port switch and then plugged the long run cable into the uplink port on the 5 port and that patches to the 8 port switch in the basement. Well I am not sure if the Marvell chipsets cannot take the long runs but 25' is not that long of a run and I have not had any issues before the pwr outage of a couple months ago, so I am wondering then if lightning or the like actually damaged that cable. I have it working now at least I can update a media file in less than 10 seconds weather I am changing media sub-types or actually deleting a bunch of attributes it is the same 10 seconds.

Thanks for your patience everyone and the assistance with this issue. I am going to do another clean install on that system right now and I will report back once the media is all updated. This was an expensive fix as well. I have mainly 1tb and 750 drives in that server I speak off I had only a 250gb for the music and a couple other 500gb drives that are fairly old so I replaced them with 750gb thinking that maybe the drives were at fault. That is not an easy task either it takes roughly 8 hours to change one drive and you can only change one at a time. It has to ready the drives with reiserFS and then it formats it and rebuilds the data and then expands the partition for the new free space and then a parity check on a 1Tb parity drive.

Anyhow,, thanks again.

I had this question prior on this thread - When adding a new MD with 710rc2 do we still run the setup-diskless md script prior to booting for the first time on that md. I read some post that mentioned it was not necessary from this version and I want to be sure.

Also - Roy - with that favico.ico issue, I copied that file from the wiki to my desktop - then I opened up dolphin and the /var/www files as root to past the file into that directory. When I ext Dolphin now I get an error that dolphin could not save the bookmark - What am I doing wrong here. I am not sure how to do this from terminal or the prompt.